About Me

I'm a happily married mum of two boys, aged 15 and 16, and as a family we moved to France nine years ago. My husband works for a French company, I teach English to French people aged 6 - 60, and English reading and writing to the English-speaking children of the area. We are part of a French Baptist Church in Toulouse City Centre. I love to shop for French vintage lace, fabric and household items, and to combine them with my British and global treasures in interesting ways.

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Reality Check

I am not a perfect mother or housewife. There is dog hair under the sofa and the boys eat with their elbows on the table, however much they're nagged. I just assume you'd rather see the pretty stuff!

Monday, December 24, 2012

A very merry Christmas, and a belated Pause in Advent

The last part of my Essence of Christmas is, of course, Jesus. Can you spot him there, in among our Sunday School children and teachers? We had a 'global' themed nativity this year...

If you're a Christian, having Jesus as the main 'ingredient' of Christmas is a bit obvious. If you're not a Christian, I hope that you didn't stop reading straight away - I'm rather conscious myself of the alienating nature of faith blogging. I personally feel more at home in a very mixed blogging world, where we share our differences as much as our similarities. Rather like our church, don't you think? Happy Christmas to all of you. It's been a lovely year.

7 comments:

Absolutely with you all the way, Floss - one-track blogs [be they faith, fashion or frugality] can be a little wearing at times. If life is a rainbow of different activities, then it is good to reflect that in one's posts.

I do know what you mean and have skipped some blogs myself...He is afterall the essence in my day and His beauty is everywhere in nature, in all things good. So l can talk and write about many things, be it thrift findings or chickens. Wish you a blessed Christmas, Pam :-)

So true. I think I alienated people with my second pause for advent inadvertently by discussing who Jesus was. Everyone totally shunned my pause for advent after that sadly. I didn't't mean to come across so forthright but I felt I wanted to write it but is a real shame, however tis my blog. I always conscious not to make my blog all one thing. MerryCChristmas Floss. I did my pause 4 but it was a little late x